TEQlease and its affiliates (collectively "TEQlease," "we," "us," or "our") respect your privacy and are committed to treating and using Personal Information (as defined below) about you responsibly.
This Online Privacy Policy ("Policy") explains TEQlease online practices to collect, use and share Personal Information from or about you except as otherwise provided in this Policy. This Policy applies both to any TEQlease site and/or mobile application that links to this Policy (such sites and/or mobile applications, and all activities thereon, constituting "the Services"). This Policy applies regardless of what computer or device ("computer") you use to access the Services.
Throughout this Policy, we refer to nonpublic personal information that can directly and without additional information identify you or your accounts as "Personal Information." "Personal Information" includes information such as your name, address, email address, or phone number and other information that is not otherwise publicly available (such as your date of birth, Social Security number and financial information). Please read this Policy carefully. When you visit this site you consent to the terms of this Policy and the information described herein.
Any dispute related to this Policy will be governed by our Terms of Use.
We collect Personal Information from and about you in order to identify you as our customer, establish and manage customer accounts (including collection activity), complete customer transactions and understand our customers and their needs. We also collect this information to improve how we market products and services, learn about our markets and design and improve our products and services. Furthermore the collection of this information helps us to comply with legal and regulatory requirements, and protect the rights, property, or safety of TEQlease, its employees, customers, visitors to the Services, and others.
We may also collect Personal Information from you if you:
We may use the Personal Information that you provide to us as follows:
TEQlease may share your Personal Information under the following circumstances:
Affiliates : We may share your name, address and information about your transactions and experiences with us (such as your payment history or other facts about your account) with our affiliates.
Agents and service providers : To establish, administer, and manage our customers' accounts, evaluate credit, provide customer service and benefits, process account transactions and account statements, engage in collections activities, or process job applications, we may disclose your Personal Information to companies that work with us to perform services or business operations on our behalf. We may also share your Personal Information with companies that perform marketing services on our behalf, or with other financial institutions (including insurance companies) with whom we have joint marketing agreements.
Nonaffiliated third parties : In certain instances, we are permitted or even required to disclose your Personal Information to nonaffiliated third parties. For example, reporting your transaction history and information with us to credit reporting agencies, responding to regulators or auditors, to protect against fraud, or to provide information in connection with proposed or actual business transactions involving TEQlease companies or accounts. We may also disclose your Personal Information to third parties when legally compelled to do so, such as to comply with the law, to enforce our terms of use, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of TEQlease, its employees, customers, visitors to these Services, and others. Please be aware that these disclosures are permitted by law without your consent.
Other third parties : We may also share, as permitted by law, your Personal Information with other third parties with whom we do not have joint marketing agreements, such as other financial services providers, insurance companies, or with nonfinancial companies such as service organizations, retailers, travel services and direct marketers. We require these companies to adhere to TEQlease's confidentiality standards with respect to your Personal Information.
USA Patriot Act Section 326 compliance : When you open an account with us, we will ask for your name, address, and other identifying documents such as your driver's license, that will allow us to identify you. We do this to help the government fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering activities. U.S. federal law requires all financial institutions to obtain, verify and record information that identifies each person who opens an account.
Business transfers : As we develop our business, we may sell or buy businesses or assets, or be involved in mergers or other corporate reorganization. In transactions such as these, your Personal Information may be shared in connection with any of the foregoing types of transactions, even prior to the existence of a final, binding, agreement to buy, sell, merge, or reorganize.
TEQlease uses reasonable measures to protect Personal Information from unauthorized access, deletion or alteration. In addition, we have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect your Personal Information. As part of our security practices, TEQlease does not send requests for Personal Information to our customers. Any Personal Information you request TEQlease to send you via email, such as your account balance, is encrypted. However, standard email communications are not. Therefore, you should not transmit your Personal Information to us through email. Please note that no company can guarantee perfect online security, and please remain careful and vigilant in your online activities.
TEQlease operates general audience online Services that are accessible to the public. These Services are not intended for visitors under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly market our products or services to children, nor do we knowingly collect Personal Information from children.
When you visit or browse our Services, we and our advertising, marketing, or service partners may collect information such as your Internet Protocol or "IP" address, the "URL" of the web pages you visit, and may use "cookies," web beacons, or other objects to collect statistical and other information about your use of our Services. The purpose of collecting this information is to improve the effectiveness of our Services and to conduct targeted advertising or marketing. The collected information may include, for example, information about your computer, its unique identifiers, and its configuration, the web pages you visited or mobile applications used; the date and time of your visit; the websites you visited immediately before and after visiting our web site; your language preference; demographic and/or location-based information; and the popularity of various advertising words and phrases used by us. The collection of this information allows for the compilation of aggregate and anonymous information about the usage of our Services, and can help us improve your use of our Services, for example, providing quick login, streamlining site navigation and maintaining up-to-date content for all users. Should you configure your browser to reject cookies, you may disable some of our Service's features.
We currently do not employ technology that recognizes "do-not-track" signals from your browser. As stated above, we engage third parties, such as advertising, marketing, service or analytics partners, who may collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites when you use our Sites.
TEQlease may update this Policy from time to time. TEQlease may notify you of an update to this Policy by any reasonable means, including by email, online account notification, mobile application pop-up, or regular mail. You agree that if you choose to continue to use the Services after TEQlease sends you such an e-mail, online account notification, mobile application pop-up, or regular mail (allowing one week from the sent date for delivery of regular mail), you are bound to the most recent version of the Policy. You should periodically check the effective date at the top of this Policy to be sure that you are aware of the most recent version of this Policy and the important information described in it.
If you have questions about this Online Privacy Policy, please email us at info@teqlease.com.